Thursday, November 24, 2011

enjoying the music

through the mountains
the road winds, up and over,
around in some places
before dropping down
to swim upstream by the
wide river.

James Durbin's new cd
wails over the wind
through the window which
tugs at my hair, roughly
waking me for work.

clunk, whzzzzzz

these are sounds you do
not want to hear, especially
in the middle of no where
but the little arm that marks
the RPMs shoots skyward in a rather
rude gesture and the hamsters
under the hood
spin out their wheel
and rattle around as i
s l o w
to a
c r a w l
and pull over

after a quick obligatory curse
i make the call for a pick up
and sit atop the cooling corpse,
fine rain shoots holes in the clouds
of my breath and share a moment
with a curious bird that surveys
it all, looking for a bite to eat.

tomorrow is thanksgiving
and neither of us need
to worry, much.

Obviously, I wrote this yesterday. All is well, car is in the shop. We still traveled to see family. And I still have much to be thankful for, including you and all the encouragement your words and friendships are to me. Smiles.

Today at dVerse Poets, we are writing poems on Thankfulness or Thanksgiving. We will open at 3 pm EST.

And on a side note, Hank wrote a wonderful poem about me today. Thank you Hank.

78 comments:

oh that sinking feeling when the noises emanating from your car are NOT GOOD. I remember the old days...flat tire, overheated engine, throwing a rod even. Oi. We had the U Joint go on our old Ford 350 dualie when moving cross country. A super nice mechanic in Iowa fixed it cheap. One of the luckiest stops we ever made.

see this is what i like about you.. you see the beauty in moments when others would miss it...love the sitting atop the cooling corpse in the rain...would make for a great movie scene...has sth. james dean like to it... shivers..

Brian,You were on the road for the holiday and it happened!. Big relief it's been over and ok now. Happened to me once and was set off more than necessary. Why can't we have honest mechanics? Thrived on the unlucky and I was a victim.

Happy Thanksgiving for everyone in the family including gramps and grannie you are visiting.

actually i was on my way to work yesterday morning and was stuck in the middle of no where for a bit...i guess the good thing is i had to take the day off and got to travel to family a bit earlier than if i had worked...

I truly am brimming with thankfulness this Thanksgiving holiday, love...HOWEVER...I'm not so sure I would have come to your rescue yesterday if I knew you had opened and were listening to MY Christmas present!!! Ha Ha caught ya!

Uggg been thereCar breaking down can really curl ones hairBut since your back hair is already curled upI guess you already surpassed that hiccup..hahahaNice to find the silver lining thoughawwww also so nice and thankful at your show

Excellent capturing, as I have learned to find each time I visit your work. I am thankful for you and all my wonderful friends here, for my family, my pets (even Rosco who with bad timing interrupted dinner with an aroma of his own). Sadly, due to timing, the turkey failed to appear next to the ham but will be filling sandwiches for a week.

Thanks for the smiles, Brian. I wish you and yours a wonderful holiday.

It seems that, no matter how special certain celebrations are, there's a little something to reminds us that even when life isn't perfect there's still something to be grateful for. Have a wonderful time with your loved ones. That's what it's all about.

The art in living is learning how to gracefully handle these little bumps in the road. I mean come on, Brian. It's not someone threatened to take away your favorite coffee smoothie. :) I love how you'll get this. :)

Oh darn it... that sucks. That's making me think even more now that I need to join the AAA or whatever it's called here. Hope it doesn't cost you an arm and a leg but, they usually want a 100 bucks just to lift the hood up these days.Still, yes, lots to be thankful for. It could've been worse, could've been brakes failing or some such, God forbid.;)

Perhaps a greater hand wished for you to stop and contemplate for a bit...this poem shows that it was time well spent (too bad the repairs cost!) Thanks for this...as Claudia, I dig the sitting on the corpse in the rain, too... your work is always a grateful read, many thanks to you ~ angela

Happy Thanksgiving Brian! Fingers crossed that repairs aren't too dear, but they need to be done & I guess it helps the economy spin. Hope you got a good load of turkey in ya to make up for the headaches.

It seems things like this often choose to happen at the MOST inopportune time. I had something happen to me last week. Driving car to other side of town. Temperature gauge went WAY high. (Oops, I forgot my cell phone at home...I never do that.) Anyway I managed to limp it to the dealership ...but still, I swear it never would have happend IF I had my cell phone. Glad you spent day with family today, hope car will be fixed soon; and hope you have a very happy Thanksgiving (sans car).

...looking past the pains of life there is always something to be thankful for. People are complaining about food price, I'm included, but what about the large population that has no food. Trust the day turned out well...

Glad you were still able to enjoy the holiday. Your poem reminded me of a day I heard those awful sounds. Mechanics found all kinds of garbage, including dog poo, in my engine. Rats had decided this was a great place to nest. Yuk. It cost me $700.00 but it did make some people laugh. So I guess I should be grateful for that.